LA TEL Y P V BUSHED, 
I. 
WHAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE 
SOUKCE OF THE NILE. 
By JOHN HANNING SPEKE, Captain H.M. Indian Army. 
Octavo, with Maps, &c, 14s. 
" Every paragraph, to those specially interested in geographical discoveries, 
will prove eminently attractive, and will tend, no doubt, to lay the foundation of 
accurate information concerning a country which, under its natural aspects, is 
so beautiful and so prolific in its productions, and demands, on many grounds, 
the attention of the European. " — John Bull. 
" Will be read with peculiar interest, as it makes the record of his travels com- 
plete, and, at the same time, heightens, if possible, our admiration of his indo- 
mitable perseverance as well as tact." — Dispatch. 
II. 
JOURNAL 
OF THE 
DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 
By JOHN HANNING SPEKE, Captain H.M. Indian Army. With a 
Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa by Captain Speke ; Numerous 
Illustrations, chiefly from Drawings by Captain Geant; and Por- 
traits, Engraved on Steel, of Captains Speke and Grant. 
Octavo, price 21s. 
" The volume which Captain Speke has presented to the world possesses more 
than a geographical interest. It is a monument of perseverance, courage, and 
temper displayed under difficulties which have perhaps never been equalled." — 
Times. 
" Captain Speke has not written a noble book so much as he has done a noble 
deed. The volume which records his vast achievement is but the minor fact — the 
history of his discovery, not the discovery itself ; yet even as a literary perform- 
ance it is worthy of very high praise. It is wholly free from the traces of book- 
manufacture. ... It is, however, a great story that is thus plainly told ; a story 
of which nearly all the interest lies in the strange facts related, and, more than 
all, in the crowning fact that it frees us, in a large degree, from a geographical 
puzzle which had excited the curiosity of mankind — of the most illustrious em- 
perors and communities — from very early times." — Athenaeum. 
" This volume of Captain Speke's, in which he establishes beyond dispute his 
right to the honour of a discovery which had engaged the attention and curio- 
sity of men from the earliest ages, is not only a record of that discovery — it is 
a monument of heroic persistency under circumstances the most appalling, and 
a treasury of new and surprising knowledge of many kinds. More enchanting 
than a fairytale, more exciting than a novel, its greatest charm is yet that 
every word of it is true, and its thrilling revelations are recounted with a modesty 
which is, we suppose, as characteristic of true genius as it is of real bravery." — 
Daily News. 
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH h LONDON. 
